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My mother used to say things just to make me mad. Like most teenagers, I thought I knew everything. And I didn't want to be told what to do. For example, if I said I was going to a movie, my mother would get . On my way out, she would shout, "You need to slow down before something bad happens! You don't want to learn the hard way!" I didn't know what that meant. I thought she just wanted me to stay at home.
Many years I had three teenagers of my own. They thought they knew everything. I would say the same things to them like my morn. That's when I first saw it. My mother didn't just want to make me stay at home. She was to help me.
Why do we always have to learn things "the hard way"? Why can't we just accept our elders' ? It's a good lesson for anyone. Clearly, I still haven't learned it.
Yesterday, I stepped out of the shower when I heard my cell phone in the kitchen. Getting a towel in a hurry, I ran through the house. I took the phone and hit my left foot against the table. The X- ray showed that I'd two toes(脚趾).
We all need to slow down in a while, before something bad does harm to us. My mother was right about a lot of things. I wish I could have told her.
